For one 22-year-old woman, a romantic night at the movies meant a lot more than, well, a romantic night at the movies. Delhi-based Naina Kataria was on a date when she saw a commercial for women's razors. Frustrated, the woman told her date she felt stars shouldn't endorse products that push hairlessness as the only way to be beautiful. He replied by telling Kataria she was "too much of a feminist," and she responded accordingly—by penning a viral poem explaining all the things men don't understand about women and their body hair.

Kataria's poem details her complicated relationship with her own body hair and generalizes it using examples many women can relate to. "When a man tells me / I’m beautiful / I don’t believe him," she writes. "Instead, I relive my days in high school / When no matter how good I was / I was always the girl with a mustache." She recalls the feeling of hot wax and the pain of the laser, and she sheds light on the hypocrisy of a world telling women to be themselves without really meaning it. She refers to body hair removal routines as "... torturous miracles that happen / Inside the doors marked / 'WOMEN ONLY,'" and points out that men are punished for trying the same treatments.

In a compelling conclusion, she writes, "So when a man calls me beautiful / I throw at him, a smile; a smile that remained / After everything the strip pulled away / And I dare him / To wait / Until my hair grows back."

Thousands of Facebook users have shared the now-viral poem, recounting their own stories of body hair and insecurity. Though everyone is entitled to make their own choices regarding their body hair (if you want to shave, then by all means, shave!), Kataria's poem has popularized a narrative that's often pushed aside, and for that, it's being celebrated.